Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.ring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Meg Mundell discussing her new novel The Trespassers.

From across the UK people jealously guard their clean bill of health in order to leave England’s shores in search of work in Australia. As passengers board The Steadfast, protesters line the docks denouncing the men, women and children as traitors for abandoning the infected country. On board the ship the passengers settle in for the month long journey to Australia; dreaming of the possibility that awaits them in this new and healthy land.

All proceeds with interminable regularity until a crew member is found murdered in the early dawn. The only witness is a young boy silenced by fear...